State of Georgia v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- holding that: (1) DOJ failed to establish that communications exchanged with private parties concerning joint election-related lawsuits against plaintiff qualified as “intra-agency” communications under the consultant corollary exception to Exemption 5; and (2) even if disputed communications were considered “intra-agency,” DOJ could not rely on the deliberative process and attorney work-product privileges because it failed to show that it had “sufficiently similar legal interest with of the private litigation groups” to invoke the common interest doctrine.

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